Carapace significantly wider than long, its surface canaliculated; antero-lateral borders armed with two teeth; frontal, branchial and cardiac grooves well marked. Rostrum tridentate, median tooth on a lower level, projecting further forward than lateral ones, which are blunter. No epipod on cheliped. Palm of cheliped smooth, only a proximal tubercle at carpal articulation and another one at the base of dactyl. Distal margins of carpi and propodi of second and third pereiopods bluntly lobed. (Türkay 1995)

Alcock, A.W., 1901. Catalogue of the Indian Decapod Crustacea in the collection of the Indian Museum. Part I. Brachyura. Fasc. 1. Introduction and Dromides or Dromiacea (Brachyura Primigenia). Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, i-viii, 1-80, pls A & 1-7.

Laurie, R.D., 1906. Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. In: W.A. Herdman, Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon by other Naturalists, part 5, suppl. Rep. 40: 349-432, figs 1-12, pls 1-2.

Ward, M., 1942b. Notes on the Crustacea of the Desjardins Museum, Mauritius Institute, with descriptions of new genera and species. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute, Port Louis, 2(2): 49-113, pls 5-6.

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